Obama Aligns With GW on Eco-Innovation

Well it looks like aligning oneself with GW (Garbage Warrior) may not be such an ineffective idea after all. View a clips from Garbage Warrior here.

Obama said he would use Gore to help forge a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions designed to lower pollution, however, he cautioned that such a system could mean an increase in electricity bills from power companies that rely on coal-burning, and that some of the money generated from a cap-and-trade system may be used in the beginning to help lower income or fixed income customers with those bills.

He also called on individuals to do their part to lower energy consumption. "All of us are going to have to change our habits. We are a wasteful culture," he said singling out the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs, energy efficient appliances, and unplugging power chargers when they're not in use as relatively simple solutions.

"Those kinds of simple steps, if everybody takes them, can drastically reduce our energy consumption."